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Yahoo Xena Auction

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All fans with a credit card and healthy bank balance will find this hard to resist. There is an Official Charity Prop auction being held on Yahoo Auctions of all sorts of the best props and costumes from the show available for bids. The auction starts on June 1 and runs until June 14, so just two weeks to spend anxiously looking to see if your bid of five dollars will get you Xena's chakram!! (It won't..)

coat, but no Gabrielle..sadlyItems already attracting big money bids include Gabrielle's Season 5 coat, a set of Xena's armour, costumes worn by Ares, Aphrodite, Callisto, Iolaus and Ephiny, Xena and Gabrielle's Egyptian outfits from Antony and Cleopatra, the broken chakram from S5's Chakram, scrolls, daggers and one I wanted (but the bids have already gone too high), the Cronos stone as seen in the Herc ep, Armageddon Now.

Now probably, the more wealthy fans will send prices out of the range of us less affluent people, but if you have any savings, now is the time to unstuff the mattress, break open that piggy bank and cash in those granny bonds!

All of the proceeds from the auction will go to the Childhelp USA National Child Abuse Hotline - chosen by Lucy Lawelss.

Here is the press release on the Studios USA Xena web site...
(West Hollywood, CA., May 30, 2001) Fans of the syndicated hit Xena: Warrior Princess can commemorate the finale of the six-season-old series by participating in an official charity auction of approximately 250 props and costumes beginning Friday, June 1.

Hosted by Yahoo!® Auctions (http://auctions.yahoo.com/xena), one of the largest globally branded online auction services, and coordinated by It's A Wrap! Production Wardrobe Sales, the action-fantasy series will offer costumes, breastplates, scrolls, spears, satchels, bows and arrows, as well as a wide array of other items, used by Lucy Lawless, co-star Renee O'Connor and the rest of the cast. The auction will conclude on June 14, the week part one of the much-anticipated two-part finale will air in national syndication (see local listings).

All of Studios USA proceeds will be donated to series star Lucy Lawless' charity of choice: the Childhelp USA National Child Abuse Hotline (1-800-4-A-CHILD"), which offers crisis intervention, information, literature and referrals 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Its state-of-the-art technology provides interpreters in 140 languages, as well as accessibility to the hearing impaired at 1-800-2-A-CHILD.

The hotline, established in 1982, receives calls from throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico. It is staffed with professional counselors who utilize a database of more than 55,000 emergency, social service and support resources.

Seen in more than 115 countries, Xena: Warrior Princess debuted in national syndication in September 1995. Xena chronicles the life-and-death-and-afterlife adventures of the fierce and fearless warrior princess, played by Lawless, and her warrior bard sidekick Gabrielle (O'Connor). In their travels through ancient imaginary lands, the two fight to protect the powerless even as they struggle with their own inner demons. The stories of their adventures blend drama with humor and feature spectacular action, cutting-edge special effects and a knowing modern-day sensibility.

A Renaissance Pictures production (Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Timecop, Hard Target, Army of Darkness, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Back 2 Back Action and the upcoming feature film, The Gift), Xena: Warrior Princess is executive produced by Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi and R.J. Stewart and is distributed domestically by Studios USA Domestic Television. The series airs on more than 200 stations reaching 99% of the U.S.

Founded in 1959 by Sara O'Meara and Yvonne Fedderson, Childhelp USA is one of the largest and oldest national nonprofit organizations dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. For additional information, contact Childhelp USA's national headquarters at (480) 922-8212 or visit its Web site at www.childhelpusa.org.

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